President is not insistent enough

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OBAMA’S BUDGETS HAVE NOT REDUCED SPENDING

Bluffton Today, Wednesday, April 6, 2011, on Page 14 contained an item “2” under the heading National News that read, “Obama presses Congress to avoid shutdown.” I believe that this article which is not sourced is far from the truth.

Obama is not this insistent president trying to avoid a shutdown. Rather, he is the president that did not insist that his own party, the Democrat party, pass a 2010 budget even though the Democrat Party controlled both the House and Senate with vote-proof majorities.

Further, neither Obama’s 2010 or 2011 budgets proposed any reductions in government spending or reductions in budget amounts. In fact, both budgets greatly increased the debt of the United States. The article also does not include the prior vote history of Senator Obama and Senator Reid who both voted and proclaimed their position previously against increasing the government debt.

The United States is facing a great financial problem. And nowhere have we seen an insistent president trying to invigorate a Congress to get into action.